The IGL Rock Story - Part One (1965-67)CD Arf! Arf! from 1994 Label from Milford, Iowa, known as Iowa Great Lakes Recording or IGL.Founded by members of Dee Jay And The Runaways.Billy Rat & The Finks - All American Boy.mp3 Billy Rat & The Finks - Little Queenie.mp3 Dale & The Devonaires - Never Be Free.mp3 Dale & The Devonaires - Take a Look at a Fool.mp3 Dee Jay & The Runaways - Boney Maronie.mp3 Dee Jay & The Runaways - Jenny Jenny.mp3 Dee Jay & The Runaways - Peter Rabbit.mp3 Dee Jay & The…
I've long been a fan of Jamie Keenan, former drummer of La Fontaines and have been fortunate to get to know him a little over the years through a mutual love of Teenage Fanclub, our friends in Vigo Thieves/Saint PHNX and his sister Helen who introduced me to everyone after we met on a charity hike many years ago. Keenan has a natural charm, ear and a knack for melody and is a brilliant storyteller. At some point in time, I hope Jamie releases an acoustic album and publishes a book!Maybe that…
Well another week has passed (where does the time go) but that means that there are more and more new metal releases for us to delve into and explore. Hope you find something you love. Hails! DGS - death/grind - FinlandFake Dust - grindcore - USAInthraced - melodeath - FinlandAtavistia - melodeath - CanadaAkem Manah - death/doom/goth - BelgiumAngellore - death/doom/goth - FranceDefect Designer - death/prog - RussiaRito Profanatorio - death/black - PeruArroganz - black/death - GermanyAzrath-11 -…
So I did this thing yesterday, I had a tune in my head, just ten notes or so, and for the first time in my life, I automatically went to my piano to try to work out what they were. Now, I failed, and now, I have not one thin clue how I thought I could do this since at present “Chopsticks” is beyond my grasp, but I tried. And most significantly to me, I went to the piano as automatically as I might to a keyboard to write on. I concluded, briefly, that I am now a musician. I concluded, even more…
Live Street Music – Havana, Cuba It wasn’t unusual to hear music on the streets in Old Havana, often by live bands. Not pre-recorded music. Then, inevitably, there will be a couple dancing nearby. As I recall, these guys were playing in front of a bar or restaurant fairly close to where we stayed. Lovely music and lovely expressions. My favorite is the gentleman on the very right with the guitar. You can tell from their expressions that they love performing. I got close and shot at 24mm to…
James Allison / Blindness (James’ North Dub / Ransom Note James Allison delivers an EP for Ransom Note’s Friends & Family Recommends under the title Make Dance Rock Again. My pick of the bunch is a radical dub of the 2006 Fall track, Blindness. Stark, stripped back and slowed down, the end result sorta recalls Dennis Bovell reshaping The Slits. Sharp, serrated shards of broken buzzsaw riffs and Mark E. Smith’s stuttered, staccato bellowing are punched in and out of a heavy bass (Rowche) rumble,…
I ducked in and out of tiny record stores, spinning racks of cassettes and flipping through stacks of vinyl, frantically trying to find my favorite song. Turns out I was kneeling on it the whole time. Perhaps this dream was the result of my anxiety about having so many unheard songs in my queue—the lack of connection to an artifact, the impossibility of ever getting my head around music again.
I've been listening to two greatest hits compilations from seminal 90s alternative rock acts from the US this week: R.E.M.'s In Time for my music review site, and Rotten Apples for this side hustle. Both attempt to summarise the imperial phases of their respective bands as they conquered the airwaves in the 1990s, both come with a brand new song that deservedly fits in with the rest of the big hits, both have a slightly eyebrow-raising inclusion of a song from a soundtrack, and both have a…
Best Record of 2001: Day 39 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Stephen Malkmus’ self-titled debut Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challenge and noted that I’d be writing some of these up. The plan is to do quick hits on each first-round matchup and post them directly to the page. Some will be longer, some won’t, and some might just be a handful of sentences. There’ll probably be a few typos. We’ll also have a few guest posts along the way, so make…
Fontella Bass featured in Melody Maker, 11 December 1965, page 10 Having arrived in Britain on 1 December 1965 for TV appearances only, including performing on BBC’s Top of the Pops, ITV’s Ready Steady Go and TWW’s Discs as Gogo, US soul singer Fontella Bass returned to Britain in the first week of January 1966 for a two-week tour. Judging by the article from Melody Maker below, she was backed by seven-piece Surrey outfit, The Just Five for all of the gigs, although keyboard Alan Reeves says…
Brian Bennett - Chain Reaction [1978]A strange journey into disco. Some funky shit right here folks. I wonder if this ever got played out. Before mutant disco, disco was already mutant making that future genre obsolete before it was invented.Brian Bennett - The Investigator [1975]Here's some of the coolest crime funk ever from the guy who played the drums in The Shadows. This library music jam turned up a few years later in the British cop show The Sweeney.
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" by Bob Dylan Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song you call something other than its official title. What do you call it? - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 by Bob Dylan I just call it by the chorus - Everybody must get stoned, which really isn't the drug reference all the squares think it is, but a reference to the Book of Acts in the Bible and that old religious practice of killing folks who don't act they way they are told to.…
It’s spring here in New England which means that the days are finally warm enough for flowers to open and we can finally turn the heat off. Just in time for summer to come along in two weeks! This set of Exfiltration Radio started when I found a song I had been looking for ever since I was living in Seattle that first summer of 2001 and listening to KEXP. There was a happy, sunny track that I kept hearing, perfect for the warm-but-not-hot, breezy summer days, but it literally took me over…
Hey people! Today I’d like to feature a traditional Irish piece. It’s a slow air, played by a harpist whose music I’ve already featured once before, specifically a really lovely piece called “Dance of the Lambs”. Kim Robertson is originally from Wisconsin, and a pioneer of the American folk harp movement. She was classically trained on piano and orchestral harp, but has done a great deal to popularise the Celtic harp in the US. The “Cape Clear” air takes its name from an Irish island (Oileán…
A steady trickle of new tunes on their bandcamp page already suggested that something new was coming our way from this indispensable pillar of the 2010s garage punk scene, yet it still feels very much out of the blue the way this new LP, their first after roughly a decade, got unceremoniously dropped on bandcamp digitally without warning, a vinyl release via Total Punk to follow sometime later. Also there’s the question hanging over this, after their triumphant return as a touring act last…
A neat new EP by this Harrisburg, Pennsylvania dude who has already amassed a good amount of clutter on his bandcamp, though honestly nothing he’s done before has quite the spark of his newest EP which excells in four flawless examples of timeless no-frills (garage) punk songwriting. Self-described as first wave punk revival, i’ll beg to differ and say that, despite a very slight ’77 undercurrent here, these tunes reek way more of the 2000s and ’10s garage punk eras, clearly echoing the likes…
This South Carolina group’s previous This Has To Be Hell EP didn’t quite cut it for me yet but this more consistent and fleshed-out successor now is sure worth a post here, a kinda weird bastard inbetween somewhat eggpunk-ish synth squeaks and fuzzed-out space punk of the Corpus Earthling and Zoids variety with nothing terribly new or smart happening here but their staunch dedication to its simple formula just sells this shit for me.
The 2025 Modern Tension EP by this London, Ontario group, grown out of the ashes of the psychedelic garage- and post punk sensation Mononegatives. was already a quite promising, if still inconsistent mess of a record. These two new tunes now show some significant progress as evidenced by a more fleshed-out approach to their songcraft and a more deliberate, well-balanced sound increasingly leaning away from the garage punk attacks of yesteryear and way heavier into the melodic post punk vibes…
Small releases May 15th via Critter Records..
Nothing But R’N’R releases May 15th.
Pont del blanqueig by POWER BURKAS
A FUNNY SHOW HAPPENENED ON THE WAY TO THE COLISEUM Ancient Greece is suffering drought and near-famine, and on a small island (population 16 and a half) prayers to Dionysius (“Dionysus, end this crisis!”) are getting nowhere. The Tyrant of Athens summons scattered Greece to a prayer competition, meeeting little enthusiasm from the grumpy middle-aged elder Melampus, her nervous servant Atlas and the preeningly military Adonis. Young Thespis and his sister Poly offer to write the new prayer, and…
The 80's were a fun time in terms of music. A lot of new artists came on the scene and the emphasis was on the beat and the energy. New Wave and Electronic-Pop dominated the charts and this was also reflected in the movies of the time. A lot were aimed at the youth market with many becoming cult classics and being successful at the box office. This collection is a sample of a few releases of that era.1 Good Love - Prince (Bright Lights Big City)2 If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark…
Welcome to the Thursday blog post! It features new albums from Touch Girl Apple Blossom, Tall Friend, and U.S. Highball, and a new compilation from Smug Brothers. Also, the April 2026 playlist went up on Monday, so check that out too if you haven’t yet. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Smug Brothers – Gravity Is Just a…
Toledo, day 8.
Johnny Hallyday made his 90th appearance on the cover of Paris-Match this week. His first was in 1963. He died in 2017, of course, and around a million people turned out in the streets of the French capital to watch his funeral cortège go by. The reason for his reappearance on the magazine’s cover is the announcement of a new biopic, Johnny, to be directed by Cédric Jimenez, with Benjamin Voisin, so brilliant as Meursault in François Ozon’s recent The Stranger, in the title role (and on the…
Last week, I learned that the punk band Rise Against has an acoustic symphony album called Ghost Note Symphonies. We’ve had rainy acoustic music weather here the last few days, and one song on the album really stood out to me: Miracle. (Here’s the original punk version if you’d prefer it.) It’s a song about not waiting for the change you want to happen. About getting out there and making your dent in the universe. But we don’t need miracles To tumble from the sky To part the seas around us Or…
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…
Time Bandits (1981)
I'm getting into production music tracks for commercial purposes, cues, and stuff like that. This is the project I've been working on for a couple weeks, and the similarities to house music are pretty interesting. Specifically, house music made on the MPC, where you can't really have tails going over and smudging into different sections. So it's a world of 8-bar sections, one idea, fundamental melodies, and succinct information. All of that is house music, especially when you look at it from…
